Very Important Changes to the Patreon

Hey everyone,

This is a very important post so please read and let me know if you have any questions.

As many of you know I have been talking about being busy. I have been trying to keep all the plates spinning, but I find that over time I just can’t maintain the constant workload, being social to support my work, and maintaining the various online sites that I utilize to sell or distribute my work. Now, that the EMBER KS was successful, there is even more work for me to do on the Token Builder and Monster Builder templates. Moreover, my focus includes the static tokens of monsters and creatures unique to EMBER.

I have decided to make some major changes to the rewards of the Patreon. This may, or may not, change at what level you may wish to support me and the work I do.

There are some big changes:  
1.) First of all, I am going to close my e-commerce store. I will add all of my existing work (except exclusive and private works) to the Patreon.  I will explain in a bit about which Tiers will have access to which genres and types of files.


2.; Secondly, I will no longer release monthly tokens. I am positive that I will still be making tokens every month. As a patron, you will have access to them depending on your Tier. I’ll still be checking the request line and trying to make tokens that are popular for various reasons. There may be months, however, where I do not make any new tokens for Patrons. 

Because tokens will be organized in a new way, reference to packs will go away and the focus will be more on genre, types of tokens, and broader categories like Humans, Elves, Orcs, Goblins etc.

There are things that stay the same: Discord will be open to everyone. There will be only a few private channels for topics related to specific Tiers. The Requests and Off with their Heads will still be available to everyone. I will also try to stream regularly.

I’ll be around to offer assistance in finding tokens as well as helping kit bashers.

I hope, by simplifying things, I can free up time to get back to other game adjacent projects that aren’t specifically tokens, such as item art, maps, and illustrations. 

Here are Tiers and what will you get for your support:  

Tier 1: Free or $1 however it needs to be done
Limited Access to Discord (if I can make it work)
all the free tokens I’ve released to date.

Tier 3: $3, 
Access to discord, special channels, 

all non-fantasy tokens released to date in .png and .webp formats.

(sci-fi, horror, modern)
Custom tokens shared by other Patrons 

Tier 5: $5 
All of the above plus,
access to all tokens from all genres including Fantasy in .png and .webp formats

Item illustrations.

Tier 8: $8 

All of the above plus,
Access to the kit-bashers channel with help from me, 

access to parts, template files, maps, and RPG related things I create.

Tier 12: $12 
   
All the above plus, access to a private channel 

a higher priority of timely response, 

and some layered PSD files.

It will take a couple months to get everything in place. I will continue to support the current arrangement through November, then switch to the new setup. I will send a code out monthly that will allow you to access all the files. CurrentIy the plan is to use Dropbox for hosting the files. You can get your tokens without needing to have a Dropbox account. I don’t have exact numbers but I would guess close to 8,000 fantasy tokens and another 1,000 or more tokens in other genres. The goal would be to also update tokens and recreate some dated ones.

Thank you for your support. I know this change may be too much for some of you and I totally understand. Many of you, though, are here to support me regardless of what specific work I have been doing. I appreciate all of you and all the support that has come way since starting the Patreon. I love making tokens and will continue to make them for many more years to come.